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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many personalities go on Sybil and Dr. Wilbur's outing?

2. What does Dr Wilbur call some of Sybil's episodes?

3. At the age of six, what changes Sybil's life and the rest of the world?

4. What does Dr Wilbur encourage Sybil to do?

5. Outwardly, how does Sybil appear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is surprising about Willard?

2. What selves does Dr. Wilbur gradually meet as she and Sybil continue to meet?

3. What happens to Hattie when the Depression hits the United States?

4. Who is the author of the book and how does she come to write Sybil's book? As the author writes, what tone does she immediately take for the book?

5. How do Sybil's parents question the validity of Dr. Wilbur's practice?

6. To the rest of the world what does Sybil seem to be?

7. Where does Sybil meet Dr. Wilbur?

8. How does Dr Wilbur make Sybil feel better about her condition?

9. How does Sybil cope with difficult things that happen in her life?

10. As the novel begins, where does the reader find Sybil Isabel Dorsett?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and Contrast one set of the following personalities:

1. Mike & Sid

2. Sybil Ann & Clara

3. Vicky & Nancy

4. Vanessa & Mary

Essay Topic 2

a. Describe the origins of Sybil's mental dissociations.

b. What particular events cause Sybil's multiple personalities to form? Name three events from Sybil's childhood.

Essay Topic 3

Why is Sybil unable to be in a romantic relationship?

How is Sybil's relationship with Teddy different from her connection with Ramon?

What does Sybil's refusal of Ramon's proposal signify?

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